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20090141610 | Optical recording medium - In an optical recording medium for conducting at least one of reading and recording of optical information, the optical recording medium includes: a base board; and an antireflection layer composed of at least one layer, which is provided on a surface of a side of the base board where light enters for conducting at least one of the reading and recording of information. A wavelength of light that makes reflectance of the antireflection layer to light to be smallest is longer than that of the light that enters for conducting at least one of the reading and recording of information. | 06-04-2009 |
20100085633 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is an optical element for use in an optical apparatus having a light source which emits a light flux with a wavelength λ (350 nm≦λ≦450 nm), the optical element containing: a molded portion formed by molding a resin; and one or a plurality of anti-reflection layers formed on the molded portion, wherein at least one of the anti-reflection layers is made of Si | 04-08-2010 |
20100310437 | Microchip and Method for Manufacturing the Same - Provided are a microchip formed by joining a resinous film onto a resinous substrate, which enables the prevention of a leak due to peeling of a peripheral portion and prevention of deformation and clogging of a microchannel, and a method for manufacturing the same. The microchip comprises a resinous substrate including a first surface in which a channel groove is formed and a second surface on the side opposite to the first surface, and a resinous film joined to the first surface of the resinous substrate. A joint plane between the resinous substrate and the resinous film is composed of a central area including an area in which the channel groove is formed and a peripheral area corresponding to the outer periphery of the central area, the joint strength between the resinous substrate and the resinous film in the central area is larger than 0.098 N/cm, and the joint strength in at least part of the peripheral area of the joint plane is larger than the joint strength in the central area. | 12-09-2010 |
20110014422 | Microchip and Method of Manufacturing Same - Provided are a microchip enabling accurate analysis by preventing a resin film from being deflected into a flow path groove to eliminate the stagnation of a liquid sample and a method of manufacturing the microchip. This microchip includes a flow path that is formed by joining a resin film onto the groove-formed surface of a resin substrate. The deflection angle of the resin film in the sectional surface of the flow path in the width direction is made to be 0 to less than 30° at respective positions of the flow path. | 01-20-2011 |
20110033348 | Microchip and Method for Manufacturing Microchip - A microchip has a resin substrate, which is provided with a first surface whereupon a channel groove is formed and a second surface on the opposite side to the first surface, and the microchip also has a resin film bonded on the first surface. A projection area is larger than the area of the first surface of the resin substrate when the resin substrate is viewed from a direction orthogonally intersecting with the first surface. Thus, warpage of the microchip can be suppressed at the time of thermally bonding the resin substrate and the resin film by a roller. | 02-10-2011 |
20110142716 | Microchip and Process for Producing Microchip - A microchip | 06-16-2011 |
20110151198 | Micro-Channel Chip and Manufacturing Method and Micro-Channel Chip - A micro-channel chip is produced while preventing a resinous film from sagging into the channel. The chip hence inhibits a liquid specimen from residing therein. With the chip, quantitativeness and reproducibility are heightened. A process for producing a micro-channel chip is provided which comprises bonding a resinous film | 06-23-2011 |
20120020835 | Microchip - A microchip having a substrate, a cover member joined to one surface of the substrate, and a flow path formed on at least one of joined surfaces of the substrate and the cover member, wherein the microchip includes: a well which is an first opening for communicating into the flow path with a surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and is arranged on the substrate; and a chimney which is a member arranged so as to project from the surface opposite to the joined surface of the substrate and has an second opening which communicating into the well, wherein a liquid rise prevention section is formed in the chimney to prevent the liquid from rising to a top portion of the chimney. | 01-26-2012 |
20130100522 | OPTICAL ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is an optical element for use in an optical apparatus having a light source which emits a light flux with a wavelength λ (350 nm≦λ≦450 nm), the optical element containing: a molded portion formed by molding a resin; and one or a plurality of anti-reflection layers formed on the molded portion, wherein at least one of the anti-reflection layers is made of Si | 04-25-2013 |
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20080244632 | Combination Type Optical Disk Medium, Its Reproduction Method and Optical Disk Apparatus - An optical disk apparatus for use with the combination type optical disk medium comprises an optical head capable of accessing the first and second recording layers and reading recording marks, a demodulator for applying a demodulation process to a signal read out of the first or second recording layer, an address converter for deciding from an optical disk reproduction instruction a recording layer to be accessed and performing conversion to a physical address of the recording layer, a reproduction controller following the recording layer determination and the physical address to control the optical head and the demodulator so as to control access and reproduction to and from the optical disk medium, and an instruction generator for generating an instruction to reproduce the optical disk. | 10-02-2008 |
20090080300 | Data transmission method, optical disc recording method and optical disc recording apparatus - A data transmission method for a large amount of contents information, comprises the following steps of:
| 03-26-2009 |
20090271540 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - This storage apparatus includes multiple controllers, a transfer path, and multiple processors. Each of the multiple controllers is connected to the same or a different processor. A first processor connected to a controller that received a transfer command from the host system determines, based on the transfer command, a first controller to become a transfer source of data and a second controller to become a transfer destination of the data, and determines a path belonging to the transfer path between the first controller and second controller. If there are multiple paths, a path in which the number of controllers connected other than to the second controller becomes maximum as a specific path, and the multiple processors transfer data between the first controller and the second controller along with the specific path. | 10-29-2009 |
20100023655 | Data Storage Apparatus and Method of Data Transfer - A data storage apparatus having improved data transfer performance. The storage apparatus has: plural controllers connected to each other by first data transfer paths; plural processors controlling the controllers; and second data transfer paths through which the controllers send data to various devices. Each of the controllers has a data-processing portion for transferring data to the first and second data transfer paths. The data-processing portion has a header detection portion for detecting first header information constituting data, a selection portion for selecting data sets having continuous addresses of transfer destination and using the same data transfer path from plural data sets such that a coupled data set is created from the selected data sets, a header creation portion for creating second header information about the coupled data set, and coupled data creation means for creating the coupled data set from the selected data sets and from the second header information. | 01-28-2010 |
20100246372 | Combination Type Optical Disk Medium, Its Reproduction Method And Optical Disk Apparatus - A combination type optical disk medium and recording or reproducing method in which the medium include first and second recording layers based on different recoding densities. First and second volume spaces are formed to the first and second recording layers, respectively. Each volume space includes identification information of a head or end of the volume space, and an area for data. One of the volume spaces is recorded with identification information of the other volume space. | 09-30-2010 |
20100274935 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - A storage method including: controlling transfer of data between a host system and a storage device using a plurality of controllers connected to the host system and the storage device, where the controllers are interconnected via a data transfer path; and controlling the controllers using a plurality of processors connected to the controllers, wherein each of the plurality of controllers is connected to the same or a different processor; and wherein a first processor connected to a controller that received a transfer command from the host system creates, as header information of a packet of a first controller to become a transfer source: identifying information of the first controller and a second controller to become a transfer destination, identifying information of the transfer path between the first controller and the second controller, and identifying information of a controller which is between first and second controller to be routed upon transferring the data. | 10-28-2010 |
20110197011 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND INTERFACE EXPANSION AUTHENTICATION METHOD THEREFOR - Degradation of data transfer performance is restrained during data transfer for minoring between first and second controllers. | 08-11-2011 |
20110238914 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - The present invention aims for efficient use of storage capacity in a storage system by reducing the amount of time taken for processing including removing redundancy and data compression executed with respect to transferred data. | 09-29-2011 |
20110296129 | DATA TRANSFER DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A data transfer device that confirms completion of writing into a memory on transferring data to the memory via a bus through which a response indicating completion of data writing in the memory is not sent back includes an inter-memory data transfer control unit performing data transfer between the memories. When the inter-memory data transfer control unit detects switching of a write destination memory from a first memory to a second memory, in order to confirm that writing into the first memory is completed, the inter-memory data transfer control unit performs confirmation of write completion as to the first memory by a procedure different from writing into the memory. When a data transfer with a designated transfer length is completed, in order to confirm that writing is completed as to the write destination memory at the end of the data transfer, the inter-memory data transfer control unit performs confirmation of write completion as to the write destination memory at the end of the transfer by the procedure different from writing into the memory. The inter-memory data transfer control unit notifies the processor of completion of an inter-memory data transfer based on the confirmation of write completion. | 12-01-2011 |
20120096289 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - To enable power saving control by putting storage areas of the same attribute together in a specific RAID group in a storage apparatus that includes storage areas of different access patterns. | 04-19-2012 |
20120151169 | STORAGE APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a storage apparatus that can suppress access performance degradation owing to processing of data deduplication. The storage apparatus according to the present invention acquires a sum of the access frequencies to each of redundantly allocated pieces of data, and performs the deduplication on the pieces of data having the sum of access frequencies less than a prescribed threshold (FIG. | 06-14-2012 |
20120278569 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A storage apparatus providing a logical storage area for storing data to an external apparatus, includes a plurality of storage devices each providing a physical storage area for storing the data, the storage devices being different from each other in device property including data input/output performance, a capacity virtualization part managing the physical storage areas of the storage devices as unit physical storage areas each having a predetermined storage capacity and managing the unit physical storage areas in association with a plurality of unit logical storage areas forming the logical storage area, a tier controller managing the plurality of unit physical storage areas by classifying into a plurality of tiers the unit physical storage areas provided by the storage devices having the different device properties, and a redundant data management part managing redundant unit storage areas which are a plurality of the unit physical storage areas storing the same data. The data migration between the tiers is controlled according to, for example, an access frequency to the data from the external apparatus. | 11-01-2012 |
20130290281 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - The processing load when rewriting portions of compressed data is alleviated. | 10-31-2013 |
20130311706 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DATA TRANSFER IN STORAGE SYSTEM - An embodiment of the present invention is a storage system including a plurality of non-volatile storage devices for storing user data, and a controller for controlling data transfer between the plurality of non-volatile storage devices and a host. The controller includes a processor core circuit, a processor cache, and a primary storage device including a cache area for temporarily storing user data. The processor core circuit ascertains contents of a command received from the host. The processor core circuit ascertains a retention storage device of data to be transferred in the storage system in operations responsive to the command. The processor core circuit determines whether to transfer the data via the processor cache in the storage system, based on a type of the command and the ascertained retention storage device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311739 | STORAGE APPARATUS, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA MIGRATION METHOD - Provided are a storage apparatus, a storage system, and a data migration method with which, if data of a virtual disk which belongs to one pool area is migrated to another pool area, the migration time and processing load can be reduced by migrating the data while maintaining duplicate determination. | 11-21-2013 |
20140104967 | INTER-MEMORY DATA TRANSFER CONTROL UNIT - A data transfer device that transfers data to a memory according to an instruction from a processor via a bus through which a response indicating completion of data writing in the memory is not sent back, comprises an inter-memory data transfer control unit including an operation start trigger receiving unit, a parameter acquiring unit, a read unit, and a write unit. When the write unit detects switching of a write destination memory, the write unit confirms write completion as to the memory by a procedure different from writing. When a data transfer instructed by the processor is completed, the write unit confirms write completion as to the write destination memory at the end of the data transfer by the procedure different from writing. The inter-memory data transfer control unit notifies the processor of completion of an inter-memory data transfer based on the confirmation of the write completion. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115255 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE SYSTEM - It is provided a storage system, comprising a storage device for storing data and at least one controller for controlling reading/writing of the data from/to the storage device. The at least one controller each includes a first cache memory for temporarily storing the data read from the storage device by file access, and a second cache memory for temporarily storing the data to be read/written from/to the storage device by block access. The processor reads the requested data from the storage device in the case where data requested by a file read request received from a host computer is not stored in the first cache memory, stores the data read from the storage device in the first cache memory without storing the data in the second cache memory, and transfers the data stored in the first cache memory to the host computer that has issued the file read request. | 04-24-2014 |